From:
Guy R. Schenker D.C.
February, 1997
Dear Doctor,
Last month we started your New Year off with exciting
news of major improvements in your NUTRI-SPEC testing
system. You were given:
- New testing procedures -- even faster and easier to
employ.
- A new Test Results Form to accommodate the improved test
procedures.
- A totally revised Quick Reference Guide upon which to
base your test interpretation.
- Dramatic price cuts in all your electrolyte supplements.
- The addition of Glutathione -- with it's amazing high
biological activity -- to your Oxygenic A.
- The introduction of seven entirely new products
including magnesium chloride as well as six pure form
amino acids.
I've got so much more to tell you I don't know where
to begin.
In the last Letter you learned the step by step
procedure for all the revised tests. You also came to
understand why it was essential that we changed the way
you test your patient's response to orthostatic challenge.
The new blood pressures and pulses give you a wealth of
information that you just were not consistently getting
before. As an added bonus -- the new blood pressure and
pulse testing is easier and faster than the old.
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This month I absolutely must share with you the story
behind your new adjusted saliva pH. Beyond that, it is
difficult to prioritize the material I want to give you --
because it is all so critically important. You need a
detailed explanation of every page of your Quick Reference
Guide. You also want the complete scoop on the seven
powerful new supplements at your disposal.
I suspect the most meaningful way for you to ingest
all the new material is to have it presented page by page
of the new Quick Reference Guide. I'll describe the
biological activity of each of the new supplements as they
come up in the discussion of your Quick Reference Guide
changes.
It will, of course, take us several months to put all
the material out in front of you such that you develop a
complete working knowledge of this quantum leap in power
and specificity of your NUTRI-SPEC analysis. That does
not mean, however, that you cannot begin offering this
phenomenal service to your patients immediately -- even
without a complete grasp of the theory behind it. You
should have the procedures down pat. (If you don't,
mastery of the procedures is only a phone call away --
call us.)
There is also no reason why you can't call for
explanation of a portion of your analysis, or an
explanation of the rationale behind the use of one of the
new products. Call us for as detailed an explanation as
you want. In other words, if you test a patient tomorrow
and find a metabolic acidosis and the need for the amino
acid Glutamine for that patient -- you need not wait for a
month or two for me to get around to explaining the
rationale for the use of Glutamine for an acidosis. Feel
free to jump the gun and call with any questions you have.
ADJUSTED SALIVA pH --
FINALLY, A SALIVA pH THAT FITS.
The A-SpH is the most significant improvement in your
analytical system in many years. For me personally it is
a source of both excitement and embarrassment. Exciting
because of how beautifully it clarifies the analysis of so
many patients -- yet embarrassing because it took me 18
years to figure it out.
When I first began developing the NUTRI-SPEC testing
system I knew that the saliva pH would provide a wealth of
information and be one of our most significant tools of
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analysis. I also knew that there were two major
determinants of saliva pH:
- the electrolyte content of the saliva
- the carbon dioxide plus carbonic acid level of the
saliva.
I knew precisely how (theoretically) the saliva pH should
fit into each of our fundamental balance systems.
By 1984, when NUTRI-SPEC had evolved to the point
that it could legitimately be called a clinical testing
system, the saliva pH had already become a source of
frustration. It just did not consistently do what it was
supposed to do. By 1989 when we put out the first edition
of "An Analytical System of Clinical Nutrition," the
saliva pH was relegated to third class status as a
clinical indicator. I couldn't get myself to delete it
completely because I knew that the saliva pH did respond
to aberrations in metabolic balance. Some day, I thought,
I'll make some sense out of its seemingly random ups and
downs.
Several months ago I had an "Aha, you dummy, why
didn't you see this years ago" experience. I was actually
working on improvements in our analysis of electrolyte
insufficiency patients -- studying the electrolyte content
of the saliva from dozens of analyses we did years ago. I
saw clearly that in many patients the saliva pH was higher
in patients with low saliva electrolyte content and the
saliva pH was lower in patients with high saliva
electrolytes. No big surprise here, as I already knew
that electrolyte content was one of the two prime movers
of saliva pH.
Since, however, there were patients whose saliva pH
was either very high or very low despite relatively normal
electrolyte concentrations, it occurred to me that these
must be the people whose saliva pH was primarily
influenced by its CO2 plus carbonic acid content. The
obvious thing to do was to divide this large group of
patients under study into two groups -- one whose saliva
pH was electrolyte dependent, and one whose saliva pH was
influenced primarily by CO2 plus H2CO3.
Nice idea, but it didn't work because such a high
percentage of the patients whose saliva pH was influenced
by electrolytes also had NUTRI-SPEC imbalances that would
cause abnormal CO2 plus H2CO3 levels. In other words,
there was no easily identified factor or factors that
distinguished one saliva pH group from another.
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Then, I said, "Hey, look at this."
I HAD DISCOVERED A PATTERN.
All the patients whose saliva pH was either
high or low in association with low or high electrolyte
levels (whether or not the saliva pH and electrolyte
levels were the result of an electrolyte imbalance or some
other NUTRI-SPEC imbalance) had a urinary specific gravity
that varied inversely with the saliva pH. Every patient
who had a high saliva pH with low saliva electrolytes had
a low urine specific gravity. Every patient who had an
acid saliva pH with high electrolyte concentration had a
high urine specific gravity.
Eureka! For years I had known that saliva pH was
dependent upon electrolyte concentration without stopping
to consider that electrolyte concentration is just the
inverse of water concentration. All I had to do was find
a way to factor in this urine specific gravity association
with saliva pH and I would have effectively segregated the
two major influences on saliva pH. That is to say I could
come up with an adjusted saliva pH that would reflect
almost purely the carbon dioxide plus carbonic acid
influence on saliva pH. These organic acids are, of
course, the key to the saliva pH's association with
Anaerobic/Dysaerobic Imbalances, Glucogenic/Ketogenic
Imbalances, and Acid/Alkaline imbalances.
Having contrived this A-SpH, I was overwhelmed by its
power as an analytical tool. Suddenly the saliva pH was
elevated to its rightful status as a primary indicator in
our system. We now began finding almost all anaerobic
patients and glucogenic patients had low A-SpH. Almost
all dysaerobic and ketogenic patients had elevated A-SpH.
The saliva pH's you consider for acid/alkaline imbalance
suddenly started to conform to the expected pattern.
This happy story about saliva pH and how it is now an
important part of your analysis for every one of your five
imbalances leads us right into our discussion of your new
Quick Reference Guide interpretation. Let us begin with a
look at your new QRG analysis of Electrolyte Stress and
Electrolyte Insufficiency.
The first thing you will notice at the top of this
page (and at the top of each page of your new QRG) is a
list of a few tests designated as a "Quick Scan." The
point of these Quick Scans is simply this: if one of the
imbalances under consideration on this page is not showing
a clear dominance over it's opposite imbalance, then you
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need look no further -- just turn the page and consider
the next imbalance.
In the case of Electrolyte Stress and Electrolyte
Insufficiency the 4 tests of your Quick Scan are really
the only four tests you need consider at all.
The trick to doing your Quick Reference Guide
analysis in just a minute or two is to learn to pull this
small group of numbers off the Test Results Form and carry
it to the Quick Reference Guide AS A GROUP. In other
words, do not bother your eyes with four time-consuming
trips back and forth between your patient's test results
and the Quick Reference Guide page.
- Know which numbers you are looking for;
- Read them into your brain;
- Then carry them over to the Quick Reference Guide and
see if they fit into one of the two patterns.
For Electrolyte Stress and Electrolyte Insufficiency
the 4-Point Quick Scan consists of:
a) The first pulse subtracted from the highest of the
four pulses.
b) The second diastolic blood pressure.
c) The first systolic blood pressure.
d) The first pulse.
You can scan for these quite easily as they are all
in a small counterclockwise circle in the middle of your
Test Results Form.
With these four numbers you will know in less than 5
seconds whether the patient has an Electrolyte Stress or
an Electrolyte Insufficiency. If there is no apparent
imbalance you simply turn the page. If your patient's
four tests do conform to either pattern, then simply look
below on the QRG page to determine what supplements are
specifically indicated for this patient.
Note at the bottom of both the Electrolyte Stress and
the Electrolyte Insufficiency column you are given a
criterion upon which to determine your patients' water
intake. This is a neat little formula using the saliva pH
(not the A-SpH) and the specific gravity. I'll give an
example to illustrate. You have a patient with a saliva
pH of 6.8 and a specific gravity of 25. 6.8 - 2.5 = 4.3.
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4.3 is less than 5, so the patient needs to increase his
water intake. Another example. Your patient has a saliva
pH of 6.8 and a specific gravity of 10. 6.8 - 1.0 = 5.8.
5.8 is more than 5, so the patient's water intake is
adequate (and this may even be the case in a patient you
are treating for Electrolyte Stress.)
The list of potential supplements for your patients
with Electrolyte Stress or Electrolyte Insufficiency has
been greatly expanded. Notice, I said potential
supplements. From this expanded list you will pick and
choose just those few supplements which will have the
desired metabolic impact on each of your patients.
Even more specificity equates to an amazing increase
in biological activity.
With the old protocol for correcting Electrolyte
Stress imbalances we have seen countless "miracles."
There are your patients who, having been on blood pressure
medication for years, were able to get off the drugs
entirely. There are those with claudication who can now
walk like they could years ago. There are those for whom
angina pain is, thanks to NUTRI-SPEC, a thing of the past.
Still -- there have been those Electrolyte Stress
patients in whose case we quickly reached a plateau. The
same can be said for far too many Electrolyte Insuf-
fiency patients. We just did not have the big guns to
push them out of their metabolic rut.
Just wait until you see what happens with the use of
your amino acids and other nutrients when used according
to objective indicators.
Sincerely,
Guy R. Schenker, D.C.
P.S. The new Formula ES will not be available for many
more weeks. Even without it you are going to stop
cardiovascular disease in its tracks.